Atkinson v. Bush’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 1945
5 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Raper v. Harrison
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To constitute a valid pledge of personal property as security for a debt it is essential that there be an actual delivery of the property by the pledgor to the pledgee, and the pledgee must thereafter hold possession of the pledge openly and adversely to the pledgor.” (Syl.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.